Million Dollar Main Event Day 2 | 2023 RGPS Checkpoint Thunder Valley

07-30-2023 13:36 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Paul Sampson	1,060,000 497,000	497,000

Michael Abratique	750,000 385,000	385,000
Adam Dunkle	550,000 14,000	14,000
Deven Cannon	510,000 387,500	387,500
Adam Hannula	465,500 59,500	59,500
Phatseluck Yang	465,000 77,000	77,000
John Kenner	400,000 225,000	225,000
Joseph Mussat	400,000 135,500	135,500
Jared Jaffee	375,000 19,000	19,000

Anubhav Jolly	375,000 153,000	153,000
Jeff Platt	363,500 203,500	203,500
Wesley Nally	362,000 222,000	222,000
Naga Kakumanu	353,000 160,500	160,500
Kevin O'Donnell	340,000 100,000	100,000
Ravi Udayakumar	325,000 -86,500	-86,500

Joseph Quaile	320,000 122,000	122,000
Ethan Yau	318,500 185,500	185,500

Richard Fifield	310,000 110,000	110,000
Mehran Moeinzadeh	302,000 122,500	122,500
Daniel Turner	300,000 -84,000	-84,000
Jasvinder Singh	290,000 74,500	74,500
Tongzu Ding	277,000 96,500	96,500
Sean Drake	273,500

Anthony Hernandez	272,000 33,000	33,000
Alexander Rodriguez	270,000 -25,000	-25,000

Break Time!

Kirk Brown

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

The remaining players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day and will return to action shortly.

07-30-2023 12:52 UTC-7

Player	Chips	Progress
Exequiel Fernando	Busted
James Thompson	Busted
Joe Toney	Busted
James Schipsi	Busted
Damon Underwood	Busted
Michael Loncar	Busted
Richard Green Jr	Busted
Asmare Bekalu	Busted
Jason Stoddard	Busted
Pedro Rodriguez	Busted
Jaime Haletky	Busted
George Waller	Busted
Ralph Topete	Busted
Thomas Riggs	Busted
Stephen Kujubu	Busted
Gregory Pincombe	Busted
Ryan Bechthold	Busted
Reginald Pears	Busted

McKellar Check-Raises Spruitenburg

Kirk Brown

Level 12 : Blinds 1,500/3,000, 3,000 ante

Pierce McKellar opened from under-the-gun to 6,500 but was then three-bet to 18,500 by Jeffery Spruitenburg in the cutoff. Ekrem Bozkurt made the call from the but and it folded back to McKellar who made the call.

The three of them went to a flop of 5♥Q♣9♠ and McKellar checked to Spruitenburg who continued for 30,000 which produced a fold from Bozkurt and a call from McKellar.

What you got, a flush draw?" Spruitenburg joked to McKellar as the turn came out the A♦ and McKellar checked again.

Spruitenburg fired again for 30,000 but then McKellar check-raised all in to cover him, which resulted in a hast fold from Spruitenburg to award McKellar the pot.

Meanwhile, Bozkurt was kicking himself after admitting he folded ace-king.

Player	Chips	Progress
Pierce Mckellar	278,000 112,500	112,500
Ekrem Bozkurt	41,000 16,500	16,500
Jeffrey Spruitenburg	38,000 -110,000	-110,000

Tags: Jeffery Spruitenburg Pierce McKellar Ekrem Bozkurt

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 3,000

07-30-2023 12:16 UTC-7

Jolly and Wang Learn to Share

Kirk Brown

Level 11 : Blinds 1,500/2,500, 2,500 ante

Anubhav Jolly opened to 5,000 from under-the-gun and Jeff Platt made the call from the button while both blinds defended.

The four of them went to a flop of A♠7♥Q♣ and Jolly continued for 12,000 after it was checked to him. Platt and Jonathan Wang in the big blind made the call and they went three ways to a turn Q♣.

Wang checked to Jolly who fired again for a healthy sizing of 26,000 which produced a fold from Platt but Wang decided to stick around and see the 6♠ fall on the river.

Wang checked once more and Jolly decided to check back and tabled A♥8♦ for a flopped two pair but then Wang flipped over A♦8♠ for the same hand and they chopped the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jonathan Wang	255,000 177,000	177,000
Anubhav Jolly	222,000 115,500	115,500
Jeff Platt	160,000 -43,000	-43,000

Tags: Anubhav Jolly Jeff Platt Jonathan Wang

07-30-2023 11:45 UTC-7

Reid Reaps Reward

Kirk Brown

Level 11 : Blinds 1,500/2,500, 2,500 ante

On a heads-up river on a board that read A♣9♠K♣10♠2♠, the pot was already around 75,000 when Ariel Reed moved all in for 77,000 and sent his opponent, John Kenner, deep into the tank.

Kenner, who won last week's Monolith event, was debating his options for over a minute and still seemed like his decision could go either way.

"You show if I fold?" he asked Ariel, trying to get some kind of read, but Ariel did not reply and kept the same stone-faced look.

"Alright," Kenner finally said as set out chips to make the call and tabled 9♥9♣ for a flopped set of nines but it was no good as Ariel tabled 7♠8♠ for a turned flush to take down the pot for a big double.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ariel Reid	237,000 99,500	99,500
John Kenner	175,000 -120,500	-120,500

Tags: Ariel Reed John Kenner

07-30-2023 11:20 UTC-7

O'Donnell Knew it was Coming

Kirk Brown

Level 11 : Blinds 1,500/2,500, 2,500 ante

Short-stacked Mario Lopez moved all in preflop for his last 12,000 and Kevin O'Donnell made the call from middle position. The rest of the players got out of the way and the cards were tabled.

Mario Lopez: A♣2♥
Kebin O'Donnell: Q♣9♣

Lopez was in the lead with his ace-high, but by the turn K♠10♣7♦J♥, he was drawing dead to a queen as O'Donnell made a king-high straight. The river bricked out with the 2♦ to give O'Donnell the win and Lopez was sent to the rail.

"The guy called me with the queen-nine with 100 people behind him?! Unbelievable," Lopez said as he made his way to the exit.